Author: Waterbury, Florance.
Title: BIRD-DEITIES IN CHINA.
Description: Artibus Asiae Acona, Switzerland, 1952. 1st Ed. 4to. [xii] + 191pp. Frontis., 60 plates. Chapter headings in red. From the library of Dr James Bynon, light age toning, original bright gilt lettered maroon cloth, upper leading corner bumped. ¶ Artibus Asiae Supplementum X. No. 335 of a Limited Edition of 350 Copies of which 320 copies are for sale. Florance Waterbury (1883-1968) painter, collector, and historian of Chinese art. Rising to prominence with a 1922 one-woman show in New York as a still-life painter, many of which depicted Southeast and East Asian objects she collected during her travels, her fascination with Asia slowly transformed from its visual forms to its art historical study. With the publication of her important study on Chinese ritual bronzes in 1942 Waterbury became a recognized scholar.

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